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Education
• Doctor of Philosophy
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), September 2012 - June 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Advisor: Prof. Eytan Modiano
Committee: Eytan Modiano, Leandros Tassiulas, David Gamarnik
Cumulative GPA : 5.0 out of 5.0
Work
Experience • Qualcomm Research, San Diego, CA Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Senior Engineer, Wireless R&D
Research
Interests • Networking and Communication: Queueing Theory, Network Control, Information Theory,
Wireless Communication.
• Learning, Optimization, and Decision Theory: Convex Optimization, Markov Decision
Processes, Applied Probability.
Publications
Journal Papers
1. I. Kadota, A. Sinha, E. Uysal-Biyikoglu, R. Singh, E. Modinao, “Scheduling Policies for
Minimizing Age of Information in Broadcast Wireless Networks”, IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking, September 2018.
2. A. Sinha, L. Tassiulas, E. Modiano, “Throughput-Optimal Broadcast in Wireless Net-
works with Dynamic Topology”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Patents/IDFs
• “TCI Indication Procedure for UL Control”, Qualcomm IDF #182761IDF, March 2018.
Inventors: M.P.J. Wilson, S. Akkarakaran, T. Luo, Y. Zhou, X.F. Wang, W. Nam, A. Sinha.
• “PUCCH Reliability Enhancements”, Qualcomm IDF #182660IDF, March 2018. Inven-
tors: X.F. Wang, T. Luo, S. Akkarakaran, M.P.J. Wilson, Y. Zhou, W. Nam, A. Sinha, J.
Montojo.
• “Integrated Scheduler for Scheduling with X-Haul Capacity Constraints.”, M. An-
drews, P. Ananth, A. Sinha, Invention submission # 81991 at Nokia Bell Labs. US Patent
application serial no: 15/630,367.
Awards and
Honors • Recipient of the Best Paper Award in IEEE INFOCOM 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA.
• Recipient of the Best Paper Award in Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium
on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, ACM MobiHoc 2016, Paderborn, Germany.
• Recipient of Prof. Jnansaran Chatterjee Memorial Gold Medal and T.P. Saha Memorial Gold
Centered Silver Medal from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in the year 2010.
• Recipient of Senior Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS) scholarship, 2007
(awarded to approximately 20 students annually among all branches of science and engineering
in the state of West Bengal, India).
Major Academic
Achievements • Secured All India Rank 2 (out of approximately 1,00,000 students) in the Graduate Aptitude
Test in Engineering (GATE) 2010, in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
• Ranked 2nd in the department (ETCE) at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (in 2010).
• Secured All India Rank 16 in West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE 2006) in
the Engineering entrance test (out of approximately 80,000 students).
• Was offered ECE Distinguished Research Fellowship from UIUC.
Relevant
Graduate • Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory, Advanced Stochastic Processes, Information The-
Courses ory, Statistical Learning Theory, Convex Analysis and Optimization, Game Theory, Dynamic
Programming and Stochastic Control.
Academic Visits
• Yale Institute of Network Science Summer 2015
– Worked with Prof. Leandros Tassiulas on Throughput-Optimal Broadcasting in time-varying
networks.
Invited Talks IISc Bangalore (Jan 2018, Jan 2016), IIT Bombay (Jan 2018), IIT Kanpur (Jan 2018), IIT Kharagpur
(Jan 2018), IIT Madras (Nov 2017), IIT Delhi (Nov 2017), Renaissance Technologies (Rentec, May
2017), Qualcomm Research (March 2017), UC San Diego (Feb 2017), Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research (Jan, 2017), Nokia Bell Labs (June 2016), Yale Institute of Network Science (June 2015).
Professional/
Voluntary • Served as an anonymous reviewer for journals including IEEE/ACM Transactions
Services on Networking, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, IEEE Trans. on Mobile
Computing, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Performance Evaluation,
IEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems.
• Served on the executive board of Sangam (the Indian student association at MIT) as the
webmaster during the academic year 2015-2016.
• Interested in recreational mathematics. Regular problem setter and problem solver in Brilliant
(https://brilliant.org/).